The Young Princess Kills Everyone: Re
Sun’s arcana user, the silver-haired younger sister Erio, used the veins growing from her back to draw an image on the ground.
Then, a different image emerged on the arm part of the frame supporting Wheel of Fortune’s body.
The pattern however matched the image drawn on Moon’s arcana user, the blonde older sister Erini.
In other words, it was a transfer.
And in that moment, Wheel of Fortune’s destiny got rewritten.
“A god of rubbish.”
“We’ll break you.”
His arm was supposed to be torn off by the sisters’ powers.
However, Wheel of Fortune clenched his fists tight and the gears turning inside his body got faster as they gave off sparks.
Right afterwards, a sound resembling the shattering of glass reverberated.
Nothing occurred after that.
The twins opened their eyes wide in surprise.
“We rewrote his destiny.”
“Did he break it by brute force?”
“In the end, arcana users simply utilize a portion of our godly powers. Such a thing cannot surpass a true god.”
Not to mention that he was Wheel of Fortune, governing over destiny as well.
It was only natural that such powers did not work on him.
“However…… I see. The arcana of Sun, which governs the future, activates when someone touches the image, and the arcana of Moon, which governs the past, activates by drawing an image directly on the target. When combined, they can completely rewrite someone’s past……. World is very cunning.”
When someone touches the image drawn by Sun, when the designated moment arrives, the same future that is drawn on the image visits them.
The designated timing of that ‘future’ can be decided voluntarily, but Erini designated ‘immediately afterwards’ and determined the opponent’s future the moment they made contact.
As a result, Moon’s image emerged on the target’s body.
And with Moon’s powers, the past was changed to ‘scatter the opponent’s body into pieces a few seconds ago’, which could not even be defended against.
“You would not need to utilize such indirect methods if Sun’s powers were strong enough. Yet, due to the leniency of the condition that is to ‘simply touch’, you also could not directly harm your opponent in the future. And since it is necessary for Moon to ‘directly fill out the opponent’, it was possible even to irrationally rewrite the past.”
There was no helping it now, but getting seen through like this still annoyed Erini and Erio as they bit their lips.
“Knowing how it works won’t stop it from working.”
“Exactly. Even a god can’t stop us if we narrow our aim and raise the intensity!”
So far, Erini had been trying to stop the opponent in one strike.
But it was different now.
She aimed at destroying a very specific part of the body.
And if she repeated this over and over, she could even kill a god.
“It’s useless, you and I are in different stages of existence.”
Wheel of Fortune flatly rejected such shallow thinking.
Then, as a preliminary test, he shot the small gears spinning around him.
“This is not arrogance. It is simply reality.”
Erini drew an image using the veins on her back and changed her own past a few seconds ago.
She made it so that she was in a different spot a moment ago.
This made it look like she teleported.
She regrouped with Erio, and changed the past to switch coordinates once again before the gears hit them.
But the gears kept following them.
Almost as if they sensed the change in the past and followed it.
Erio decided that they could not get away by changing coordinates, and kicked up a stone near her feet, stretched the veins on her back to its surface, and carved an image into it.
A gear hit that, and Sun’s power to determine the ‘future’ activated.
An image emerged on the gear.
It was defined as being carved by Moon, and-
“The past changes.”
“If we can’t beat you, we can beat your gears!”
The past changed and the reality that ‘the gear was shot’ vanished.
Indeed, it really vanished.
But the vanished gear, little by little and faintly returned to ‘existence’.
“I-It’s not stopping, Erini.”
“What do we do, Erio!?”
They did not know what to do now.
Wheels went into their bodies and began spinning at high speed.
Their bodies got shredded from the inside.
“Aaaagh!”
“Gah, agh, gaaagh……!”
“Pitiful marionettes, I shall lower the curtains over your lives.”
Then, Wheel of Fortune raised his hand overhead and created a big gear.
It was big enough to destroy a human body in one hit.
He swung this crystallization of a god’s power and set it loose.
“That’s enough, Vent.”
At that moment, he suddenly saw a young girl standing in front of him.
“World!?”
Mitis caught the gear with one hand and crushed it into little pieces.
“Hehe, how amusing to see you in that horrible form fighting for the sake of someone else.”
“This is my true form as a god. You’re the one who is mistaken.”
“Mistaken? Me? Haha, is there a world where murderers are right?”
Wheel of Fortune launched countless gears after that provocation.
They enlarged as they approached Mitis, and got big enough to easily crush her when they hit.
However, she easily smashed them up with a swing of her arm.
“How frightening.”
“……So going all out to distort your destiny does not work either, huh?”
“Yes, because we’re in different stages of existence.”
Mitis sounded sarcastic.
“The world creation control system, World…… You’re not a god just because you usurped that. No, I’m not even sure if I can call you a living creature.”
Wheel of Fortune talked back, but hearing a fact that she already understood did not move World.
“As long as I can destroy everything, none of it matters.”
“Do you not comprehend the duty of a god? Its importance?”
“You mean how we should protect this world because it’s beautiful? I think you’ll get it, you know? Why don’t you try thinking like a human instead of like a god?”
“My memories as a human no longer hold any significance to me.”
“Yeah, because you discarded them. While you hurt those who remained, so very selfishly.”
Wheel of Fortune fell silent after hearing that.
Mitis then laughed, and began talking as she glared at him.
“That reaction…… I thought it was strange, you know. Why did Wheel of Fortune alone choose its errand by its own will? And you chose a young girl who had no disposition to be an arcana user. To top it off, you went as far as showing your own form and intervening in this world’s events…… That’s not something a god should do, you know. I bet Nix would be really angry.”
“What are you trying to say?”
“You reacted when I called you Vent. Yes, Vent Tempestus. You remember that name. Despite claiming you discarded your memories as a human.”
“It’s noise, something you left behind. I’m relieved, though. It looks like my name turned into noise for you as well.”
“Noise, eh……? Won’t you call it ‘mental trauma’? It’s sad how hatred is more permanent than love, is it not? Yeah, back then…… your little sister…… Umm, what was her name?”
“Aura.”
“Hehe, that was quick.”
Mitis almost seemed happy about his reaction.
Wheel of Fortune felt uneasy.
“Yeah…… it was back when I told you that Aura killed herself. Are you telling me that was my fault? That I was the reason? That she would never be hurt if I never existed?”
“That’s……”
“You’re embarrassed, and you hesitate to say it. Such a human reaction.”
“……My conversation with Ami made me realize that some ‘fragments’ still remained. I scraped them together. It was just ‘curiosity’ at first. However, there were far more fragments than I imagined. When linked together, they formed the outline of Vent Tempestus, and finally the very human being of that name.”
During the process of turning into a god, if one suffered a powerful shock, it was possible that they could fail to become a flawless god. That was a theory in Mitis’s world.
It was too inconvenient to be accepted as reality, but it definitely existed as a phenomenon.
Because there were two people here who could attest to that.
“You can laugh if you want to. We…… No, I also think I am wretched and unsightly. I hate myself for making Aura go through that.”
These words were an expression of not Wheel of Fortune’s feelings, but of Vent Tempestus.
“That’s why I can’t sink even further down. Not as a god, but as a human!”
“Heh, ahaha, ahahahahahaha! Now that’s a bad joke. After everything was lost? After you used up the life of a young girl who had nothing to do with this? Even after becoming a god, you hurt the people around you because of your oppressive sense of duty, and it’s too late now!”
Mitis walked up to Erini and Erio.
She put her hand on them as they healed their bloody wounds.
“What are you doing, Mitis!?”
She did not say anything.
She pushed her hand into the twins’ bodies and grabbed their hearts.
She then pushed their bodies together.
The twins went through and melted into each other.
“Ah, agh, ah, Eri, ni……”
A smile appeared on Erio’s mouth.
“Erio…… Ahah, we’re finally…… one……”
Erini also smiled in the same way.
They had spent their lives being ordered to oppress each other even as they lived together.
Despite being twins.
Despite loving each other.
Why were they born as separate beings?
They thought about that more than once or twice.
Their wish was granted.
No matter the abnormal form they took, it was no wonder that their facial expression was filled with euphoria.
“Moon and Sun get stronger when they’re closer to each other, you see. The unfortunate thing however is that when they are made into one, they become too happy to activate their reverse position’s power.”
“Are you trying to unify their bodies? Such a repulsive thing to do!”
“What are you talking about? Didn’t you turn a little girl’s body into something horrible yourself?”
Mitis scornfully laughed at Vent, then melted away and vanished.
Leaving behind Erio and Erini who had their hearts joined together.
A half of each twin’s head was linked together – or so it seemed.
In truth however, the halves were cut off and were simply moving on their own respectively.
Their bodies also seemed to be linked in halves, but a new arm grew halfway through another one, and feet branched from other feet, giving them a very incoherent and mismatched appearance.
“Sun…… Draw a future shining brightly……”
A mouth cut in half strangely spoke with the two sisters’ voices.
“I feel a strong level of mana. Damn you Mitis, did you share your power with them? Sun won’t activate if I don’t touch it, though.”
The veins stretching from the twins’ back were alive and well.
They transformed into the shape of an image.
Then, a different image floated up on Vent’s body.
“What……? Did it activate without touch? Did they evolve? The power activates by just being in the same space as them!”
A natural image of Moon rose to the surface.
It rewrote Vent’s past with destruction and ruin.
“I don’t care if you acquired more power from World. You cannot rewrite Wheel of Fortune’s destiny! Ooooooo!”
Gears furiously spun in his body.
Then, a noise resembling the shattering of glass resounded again and Moon fizzled out.
Or so he thought, but there was a small crack in Vent’s torso frame.
(How can it penetrate the power of a god!?)
Even a god could not completely stop it.
Vent felt impatient, and created a massive gear with all his might.
“Now I shall grant you the destiny of salvation by the name of annihilation and the guidance of my spinning wheels!”
An extended battle would be risky.
Even a god could sense that.
He then threw the gear at a terrifying speed. Let alone evade, the twins had no time to block it either.
The gear pulverized and ran through the girls.
It completely destroyed their bodies without a trace left behind.
“They didn’t manage to fully integrate. Now I just have to grant one last wish……”
Vent turned his back to the twins.
But he heard their voices right after that.
“Erini, I get it now. Mhm, I get it too, Erio.”
Vent turned around.
He saw the twins, still alive despite losing a part of their bodies.
How did they still exist after being struck by that attack?
“Are you still alive!?”
“Our powers are stronger if we draw immediately.”
The twins walked on their twisted legs and approached surprisingly fast.
The girls carved the past into a gear.
As a result, their destiny of annihilation was distorted, and they barely escaped complete destruction.
They were then able to restore their bodies with the regenerative abilities of an angel.
“I won’t let you get close!”
Vent blindly fired gears.
“The future is decided.”
The twins drew with their blood vessels and parried everything.
As a last resort, he struck at them directly with his own arms.
He countered past alteration with the destiny distortion of his gear fists.
Then, the twins divided in two to the left and the right.
Vent immediately reacted by launching gears, but the twins repeatedly changed coordinates.
Then blood vessels stretched out of their cut sections and carved an image into Vent’s body.
“You’re the one who is destined for annihilation.”
“Guh…… Gooooh!”
Compared to going through Sun, the strength of Moon’s direct past alteration was higher.
The frame forming Vent’s body started to creak and twist.
“Impossible, this is impossible! Arcana users cannot overcome the power of a god! I won’t be destroyed, my existence is mine alone!”
He spun his gears at full speed and resisted.
A vast wave of mana swirled around him, and the twins distanced themselves to avoid getting wrapped up in it.
Their divided bodies also came back together.
“Erini, he’s resisting. Erio, we gotta do it one more time. Erini, I know. Erio, let’s do it.”
They conversed as one body and commenced the same attack again.
(Again? This is bad…… I still haven’t broken through the first past alteration, there’s no way I can block the second one!)
It was easy to see that Vent was cornered.
“Goodbye, God.”
The twins spoke simultaneously as their tentacle-like blood vessels stretched out.
Just when Vent thought it was all over and thought about giving up……
“Hell no!”
They heard Mary’s voice.
The shell she shot from her arm was hidden with Hermit, so it was difficult to draw on it.
The twins instantly distanced themselves from Vent.
Mary used this opportunity to get between them and Vent.
“Mary! You saved me, I thank you.”
“Ami gave her life for this. I can’t let it end in defeat.”
“Yeah, you’re right. You’re exactly right. How worthless can a man be……”
There was sincere regret in his voice.
Mary curiously tilted her neck after hearing these excessively human-like words.
“If she’s done dealing with Temperance, I should leave the rest to her. This isn’t exactly what I planned, but the wish will still be granted.”
Saying that, Vent renounced his authority as a god.
As Mitis had pointed out, this was a choice that a god should never make.
His body of gears loosened, transformed, and gradually got its human skin back.
And in the blink of an eye, Ami’s body, which had been lost, was standing there.
“Huh? A-Ami……?”
“Ah, sis! Yaaaay!”
Ami innocently hugged Mary when she saw her.
Mary hugged her back and felt the warmth of a human being.
“Ami…… Is it really you!?”
“Yeah. Oh, I kinda feel like I died…… Nah, I guess that was before.”
“Aaah…… You’re Ami…… You’re aliiive…….!”
Mary hugged Ami tight.
“Nehehe, you’re so happy that you’re crying, sis. I’m happy too, since you’re happy. I think that’s the reason God transferred his life to me.”
“I can’t believe Wheel of Fortune went that far…… I have so many questions, but we have to deal with the enemy first.”
Mary and Ami looked over at the twins.
For some reason, they were steadily watching Mary and Ami’s exchange.
“Do you hear World, Erini? Mhm. If we’re gonna die, we should at least let her have the credit, Erio.”
“A disgusting concern, as usual.”
“That’s how they messed up the world. Let’s beat them together, sis!”
“Yes. Can you fight?”
“Of course! I feel in great shape right now. I’m not gonna lose!”
Ami flexed her large biceps, and indeed appeared extremely strong.
She looked like a human being, but her outward appearance did not change the fact that her body belonged to a god.
“This is my last fight, so I’ll give it my all!”
Ami was filled with determination as enough gears to cover the entire area spread out from her body.